The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word LANGUAGES
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What does LANGUAGES mean?
LANGUAGES noun- A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
- The ability to communicate using words.
- A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
- The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
- A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
- A computer language; a machine language.
- Manner of expression.
- The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
- Profanity.
- To communicate by language; to express in language.
- A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.